Had a strong technical interview today. The interviewer asked questions about the topics in this outline.

• Virtualization and Hypervisors

• Security

• Docker and Kubernetes

  • Storage for Docker

• OpenStack/CloudStack - which I lack experience

• Chef

  • Security of data - see Databags

• CloudFormation - immutable infrastructure

• DNS

  • Bind

  • Route53

  • Anycast

    • Resolvers routes to different servers

  • Cloud

    • Azure

    • Moving Monolithic application to AWS

      • Which raises a bunch of questions on the Application

        • Virtual or Physical Hardware

        • Backend / Technology

        • Requirements

        • Where is this application on the Roadmap in 3 - 5 years

        • How much of the application being used

      • Cost Optimization

      • Security

    • Explain the underpinnings of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.

These were all great questions for a technical interview. The interviewer was easy to converse and it was much more of a great discussion than an interview. The breadth and depth of the interview questions were impressive. I was very impressed with the answers to my questions by the interviewer. I left the interview hoping that the interviewer would become a colleague.

The best part of interviewing is when you spend a day with people who are skilled, interested and have great discussions.    I spent Friday in 5 one hour interviews which were great.   The people genuinely liked the company and their contributions to the company and looking to add talented people to their team.   I felt like I fit in, and would be a great place to work.

Never know what happens, but looking forward to the next steps.

Wrote about Employers Ghosting before, seems like now employees or candidates are doing it too.

https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/what-is-employee-ghosting-how-companies-created-their-own-worst-nightmare.html

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/people-ghosting-work-its-driving-companies-crazy-chip-cutter/

What happened to decorum?

What’s up with interviewers asking about kubernetes experience lately?   Two different interviewers raised the question today.

Kubernetes Is only 4 years old .   GCP has supported it for a while. AWS released it in beta at Re:invent 2017 and it went general release June 5 2018.   Azure went GA June 13, 2018.

So how widely deployed is it?     Also if it is supposed to speed deployments, how complex can it be?   How many hours to learn it?

Next week I will be learning it.  Looking forward to answering these questions.

The number one problem with interviewers, recruiters, etc is the lack of follow-up.   I refer to it as ghosting.   At least have the curiosity to reach out even via email and say, thank you, but you’re not a fit.

Why do people ask about are you ok with a manager title?    If you were a VP or director and now applying for a manager position.    Do they really not think you can’t read the job title?     I took time to apply for this position, research the company and prep for the phone call and this is the first question you’re going to ask me, is do I understand this is a manager position.   Argh!   Assume if I applied for the position there was something which interests me, ask me why this position?

This has happened a few times recently

1. _Have you ever been in an interview and half way thru are you thinking, does this person want to report to me or be the manager instead? _Decide this before you start interviewing people.   It’s a waste of time.

2. _Have you ever been in an interview and half way thru you are thinking there is no way I want to manage this person?   _Why would a company have this person interview you, are they trying to scare you away.

Best Technical Interview questions so far…

1. What is callback hell in Javascript?     First I don’t know if you’re a good programmer why you’d even need to know what this is.

2. _What is the difference between inheritance in Python and Java?     _Python natively supports multiple inheritances, whereas Java  Class B would extend Class A,  and could Class C extend class B.

3. How does a bash shell work? 

4. _When to use swap and when not to use swap?    _Ugh, the answer is it depends on the application.